I'm sick of dumb election officials who bash scientists & praise Diebold!

Kathy Cox (GA), Teresa Lepore (FL), Linda Lamone (MD)...all cut from the same mold- stupid, corrupt, ignorant, scared or a combination.

"Linda Lamone, director of the state elections board, largely dismissed Rubin's concerns and insisted Diebold had completed all the recommended changes in its software. She accused computer scientists of trying to undermine confidence in elections officials".

"I think they're doing a great disservice to democracy," she said. "They're telling the public: Don't trust them, don't trust the voting equipment."

Sure, Linda. Sure. Who is paying you?

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.diebold14nov14,0,3307906.story

The Johns Hopkins University computer scientist who identified security lapses in the voting system Maryland is adopting took his warnings to Annapolis yesterday, telling legislators he has no confidence the flaws are being fixed.

Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of Hopkins' Information Security Institute, criticized the Ehrlich administration's decision to withhold two-thirds of a consultant's report on problems with the Diebold voting system from public view. Rubin said that if the flaws have been fixed there's no justification for secrecy.

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Rubin said the Diebold software he examined was vulnerable to an attack by someone wanting to tamper with an election.

"The skill level needed to hide malicious code is much easier than the skills needed to find it," he said. "I don't believe there's a computer scientist or a team in the world that could find it."

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Frank Schugar, SAIC's project manager on the election system, conceded that Rubin - whom he described as "extraordinarily qualified and more qualified than I am" - had some valid points.

"Is it easy to hide malicious code in a great big code package? Absolutely," he said - putting the chance it would go undetected at 99.9 percent.

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Rubin said yesterday that the original code showed such a lack of competence that he doubted Diebold had the capability required to fix the software. However, he said he would be happy to lend his expertise in determining whether the revised code was secure.

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so badly programmed the Republicans get the short end of the stick. This is the only way we will get any traction.

You know how the republicans only defense is to dis' the scientists who publish results about global warming.

maybe Lamone is intelligent, informed and honorable, and simply diagrees with you.

Do you agree with her stance? If not, how do you account for her bashing the scientists?

If yes, you are beyond hope.

Does she really believe what she is saying? Then she is either stupid (is so computer illiterate she cannot comprehend the dangers) or just ignorant of the facts? I doubt either is true.

OTOH, does she have a personal interest in doing nothing? Then she is either corrupt or scared. Or both.